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Wednesday Reading Meme
Sep. 15th, 2021 04:19 pmWhat I Just Finished Reading
Still not over my reading slump, but I finished the m/m romance Off Balance by Jay Hogan at least. It was okay, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the second in this series that is coming out soon. I also read some shorter fanfic.
What I'm Reading Now
I haven't started any new books over the last week, so the most recently opened are still the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant, and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang.
What I'm Reading Next
No idea, still hoping to reduce the half-read pile of books I didn't dislike but somehow stopped reading anyway.
Maybe I'll get back to reading some historical romances, if I don't manage to get unstuck on either the paranormal or the contemporary. I think one thing I really like about their type of escapism is that unlike in most contemporary billionaire romances at least the really rich characters in historical romance happily do not work, because they can extract rents from their wealth to have nice stuff and enjoy leisure, and even delegate their wealth management. Or they look to marry rich to avoid work, if the generational wealth was squandered a little too much. Sure, unjust for the exploited peasants (and quite likely involving some slavery-related investments, depending on the time period), so problematic on the macro-level you ignore for the fantasy, but so are contemporary billionaires, only for some bizarre reason the fictional billionaires enjoy "business" and mostly we are told (if not shown) that they keep "working" even though don't have to (well, in romance, not comic characters, who tend to do hero or villain things with their wealth, which I like more).
Still not over my reading slump, but I finished the m/m romance Off Balance by Jay Hogan at least. It was okay, but I'm not sure I'm going to bother with the second in this series that is coming out soon. I also read some shorter fanfic.
What I'm Reading Now
I haven't started any new books over the last week, so the most recently opened are still the second in the Stone Shifters series, Stonewing Guardian by Zoe Chant, and The Bride Test by Helen Hoang.
What I'm Reading Next
No idea, still hoping to reduce the half-read pile of books I didn't dislike but somehow stopped reading anyway.
Maybe I'll get back to reading some historical romances, if I don't manage to get unstuck on either the paranormal or the contemporary. I think one thing I really like about their type of escapism is that unlike in most contemporary billionaire romances at least the really rich characters in historical romance happily do not work, because they can extract rents from their wealth to have nice stuff and enjoy leisure, and even delegate their wealth management. Or they look to marry rich to avoid work, if the generational wealth was squandered a little too much. Sure, unjust for the exploited peasants (and quite likely involving some slavery-related investments, depending on the time period), so problematic on the macro-level you ignore for the fantasy, but so are contemporary billionaires, only for some bizarre reason the fictional billionaires enjoy "business" and mostly we are told (if not shown) that they keep "working" even though don't have to (well, in romance, not comic characters, who tend to do hero or villain things with their wealth, which I like more).